1867-1920
J.B. Merwin established The American Journal of Education in 1867. He was connected with Henry Barnard and the great educator, Horace Mann, in Massachusetts and Connecticut in establishing the school systems of those states. He was editor of The American Journal until 1893. Professor W.M. Bryant, LL.D., was its editor in 1894 and 1895, followed by J.G. Reynolds. The paper was issued monthly.
(From the Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri by Alexander N. De Menil, 1901)
In 1867, J.B. Merwin, who had been connected with the Home and School Journal in Chicago, established the American Journal of Education, and has remained its editor and proprietor ever since. Mr. Merwin was associated with Horace Mann and Henry Barnard in establishing the school systems of Massachusetts and Connecticut. He made the American Journal of Education a progressive publication, and under his management it has largely contributed to building up the school system of the Southwest. The Journal of Education has a large circulation, and editions are printed for Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin, Kansas and Colorado, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee. A specialty of the Journal of Education has been the publication of plans for schoolhouses, many of which have been adopted in the states mentioned.
(From the History of St. Louis City and County by John Thomas Scharf, 1883).
